Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, May 1 2017

Monday of the Third week of Easter

Monday of the Third week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

6,8-15.

]Stephen, filled with grace and power, was working great wonders and signs among the people.
]Certain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen,
]but they could not withstand the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.
]Then they instigated some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."
]They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, accosted him, seized him, and brought him before the Sanhedrin.
]They presented false witnesses who testified, "This man never stops saying things against (this) holy place and the law.
]For we have heard him claim that this Jesus the Nazorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
]All those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

Psalm

Psalms

119(118),23-24.26-27.29-30.

]Though princes meet and talk against me,
your servant meditates on your statutes.
]Yes, your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors.
]I declared my ways, and you answered me;
teach me your statutes.
]Make me understand the way of your precepts,
and I will meditate on your wondrous deeds.
]Remove from me the way of falsehood,
and favor me with your law.
]The way of truth I have chosen;
I have set your ordinances before me.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

6,22-29.

] The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.
]Other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten the bread when the Lord gave thanks.
]When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
]And when they found him across the sea they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"
]Jesus answered them and said, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.
]Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal."
]So they said to him, "What can we do to accomplish the works of God?"
]Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent."

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St. Joseph the Worker()

Saint Joseph the WorkerReadings proper for the feast: Gn. 1:26-2:3 or Col. 3:14-24; Mt 13:54-58 Today is a wonderful occasion to reflect on the importance of work in the life of the human person, the family and the community. We are made in the image and likeness of God, we participate with God in the work of maintaining and sanctifying His creation. We work with Jesus; Jesus said “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working” (Jn. 5:17). Every day, St. Joseph, as a carpenter, provided for the family's needs with manual work. Thus the Church rightly points to him as the patron of workers. The dignity of the human person is constructed through work, and in the light of this truth, we can clearly perceive the fundamental connection between the person, work and society. Human activity - the Second Vatican Council recalls - proceeds from the human person and is ordered to the person. According to God's design and will, it must serve the true good of humanity and allow "man as an individual and as a member of society to cultivate and carry out his integral vocation" (cf. Gaudium et spes, n. 35). In order to fulfil this mission, a "tested spirituality of human work" must be cultivated that is firmly rooted in the "Gospel of work" and believers are called to proclaim and to witness to the Christian meaning of work in their many activities and occupations (cf. Laborem exercens, n. 26). May St. Joseph, such a great and humble saint be an example that inspires Christian workers, who should call on him in every circumstance. Today, I wish to entrust to the provident guardian of the Holy Family of Nazareth the young people who are training for their future profession, the unemployed, and those who are suffering from the hardship of the shortage of employment, families and the whole world of work, with the expectations and challenges, the problems and prospects that characterize it.(Partially taken from John Paul II - General audience, Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Wednesday, 19 March 2003)

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